The AI Chopping Block
The AI Chopping Block
Podcast Description
Learn what works in AI right now and future-proof your business or your career so you don't end up on the AI chopping block.Right now, AI is used for less than 1% of the problems it can solve. We're here to change that.Every week, we interview industry insiders & the builders behind game-changing AI-powered companies to uncover practical insights you can implement in your business or career to get ahead.Hosted by David Stepania with tech veterans Ben Smokovic & Derek Skinnell, these conversations cut through the hype to show how real businesses are leveraging AI's untapped potential.
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Focuses on the intersection of education, career development, and technology innovation, with episodes discussing topics like the future of jobs in an AI-driven economy, alternative education paths, and practical applications of AI in various industries, such as featuring founder Lawrence Bugg's insights on how to create job opportunities that don't currently exist.

Learn what works in AI right now and future-proof your business or your career so you don’t end up on the AI chopping block.
Right now, AI is used for less than 1% of the problems it can solve. We’re here to change that.
Every week, we interview industry insiders & the builders behind game-changing AI-powered companies to uncover practical insights you can implement in your business or career to get ahead.
Hosted by David Stepania with tech veterans Ben Smokovic & Derek Skinnell, these conversations cut through the hype to show how real businesses are leveraging AI’s untapped potential.
AI & Web3 are killing data labeling jobs – Sapien CEO Rowan Stone reveals how blockchain quality control and human-in-the-loop methods reshape AI data pipeline.
In this hard-hitting episode titled “Your Data Labeling Job is Going to Zero,” we confront a stark reality: AI and Web3 are rapidly eliminating traditional data labeling roles and rewriting how we prepare data for intelligent systems. Guest Rowan Stone, CEO of Sapien, pulls no punches explaining why those low-value, repetitive labeling tasks are quickly becoming obsolete. The message is urgent, adapt now or be left behind, as automation and blockchain technology upend the old way of doing things.
Stone reveals how Sapien is replacing outdated workflows with a decentralized, blockchain-driven “proof of quality” protocol that ensures only the highest-caliber, human-verified data fuels the next generation of AI. From cutting out valueless micro-tasks to empowering specialized human-in-the-loop contributors, this conversation charts the imminent shift from mundane labeling to complex, high-stakes data curation for enterprise AI systems. This episode is a must-listen for AI practitioners, Web3 builders, enterprise tech leaders, and any knowledge worker concerned about staying relevant in the AI era.
AI eliminating data labeling jobs, Data labeling jobs going to zero, Low-value data tasks obsolete, Future of data labeling work, Human-in-the-loop AI systems, Decentralized data labeling platform, Blockchain-based data quality control, AI job disruption, Web3 data infrastructure, Data curation for next-gen AI
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